Flexible Solutions

As businesses consider how to drive innovation and collaboration, flexible conferencing solutions are top of mind.

Remote workforces, mobile technology and globalization are changing the foundations of conducting business. More users from more locations means a growing demand for efficient communications technology.

Organizations are increasingly reliant on web-based communication solutions that join disparate attendees for webinars, virtualized meetings, conferencing, and education purposes. Additionally, with the rise of global workforces, many businesses are turning to web conferencing services that enhance productivity for remote users by providing a rich set of media sharing options.

Investing in new communications solutions requires an understanding of current and future requirements to find the right service that meets business objectives. In order to ensure a holistic perspective on potential investments, many companies turn to experienced resources like Select Communications. Select’s industry experience provides companies side-by-side feature comparisons from top-rated vendors to pair any business with the right web conferencing solution.

+60%

of marketers are using webinars as part of their content marketing programs.

What to Consider When Evaluating Web Conferencing Solutions

Consider the following benchmark elements of a web conferencing solution before making your final decision. With the right list of requirements to inform purchasing, companies can make smarter web conferencing investments and maximize ROI.

Features and Functionality

Is the capacity scalable per individual meeting requirements?

Can you schedule meetings easily? (Improves user adoption)

Does it require peripheral hardware/software?

End-User Experience

Does it accommodate attendees on a moblie device?

Is uploading and sharing rich media efficient and time-sensitive?

How much bandwidth does it use, and can it account for remote worker requirements?

Overall Cost

What is the cost relative to existing audio conferencing solutions?

Does it use VoIP or a flat rate toll number? (Going to the vendor for a flat rate toll number usually means they’ll charge three to four times market value)

Leverage an Expert Opinion

If you have any questions regarding a current or future web conferencing project, talk with an expert at Select Communications. With our decades of experience researching, purchasing and installing web conferencing solutions, we can provide an unbiased perspective on a wide range of vendor options, so you can choose the right soIution for your specific requirements.

Adobe Connect

Communicate your ideas powerfully using Adobe® Connect™ web conferencing software. Securely share presentations and multimedia right from your desktop, and get feedback from hundreds of participants — all using a web browser and the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, already installed on more than 98% of Internet-connected personal computers. The advantage to using Adobe Connect, as opposed to other web conferencing products is it is a flash based service- this means no download is needed to join the meeting.

As your business grows, it’s no longer defined by the brick and mortar of traditional office space. Your stakeholders are in different time zones, countries and continents, while the business world is broadly adopting the telecommuter model. How do you connect these individuals and leverage their collective knowledge regardless of their location? Web Meeting provides a creative and convenient way to visually collaborate among offices and colleagues.

This easy-to-use web collaboration service includes the key features needed for your teams to connect anywhere in the world, enhance their effectiveness and grow. Whether your team needs to work together to create documents, conduct a web meeting, share a desktop, screen share, execute a webinar or show a presentation in a secure and safe environment, we have a web conferencing solution that can meet your collaboration needs and budget requirements.

Record or Playback On-Demand: On-demand recording features let you save synchronized audio and visual content for playback at your convenience. Allow viewers to jump to specific portions in the recording with synchronized audio/web playback.

Before your meetings

Easy scheduling and setup

Brandable emails and web pages

Customizable registration

Flexible confirmation options

Automated reminder emails

Marketing campaigns

Social media promotion

During your meetings

Integrated audio controls

Manage participants

Appoint co-presenters

Grant control

Present slides

Replay video clips

Share application(s) or desktop

Enhanced polling

Chat

Annotation tools

One-click recording

Post Meeting

To broadcast a virtual event to hundreds – or thousands – of individuals, Select Communications offers advanced webcasting solutions. Webcasting pioneered the use of rich media for internet broadcasting and today, we have the most robust offerings for companies seeking to stream audio and video to their customers, partners, shareholders or employees, regardless of geographic location.

Webcasting solutions are an ideal way for businesses to share information with a select and geographically scattered audience – with plenty of visual aids to make sure that everyone gets the same message. You can slash travel costs, accelerate communication and get immediate feedback with this versatile tool. Webcasts can help companies announce such things as mergers or relocations, explain changes in employee benefits, launch new products, offer training programs and much more.

Features:

Live Event Support Services

If you’re like many of our clients, you’re tired of webcast failures: audio problems, video problems, log-in problems. We’re in the problem-eliminating business. Our dedicated webcast producers support your webcast onsite or remotely, giving your presenters and audience the support they need to ensure a successful webcast, every time.

Webcast Production Services

The quality of your webcast is only as good as the production enables it to be. Professional onsite encoding services are the key to ensuring the professional delivery of your broadcast. Broadcast-quality audio and video production engage your audience to create an optimum learning experience.

Multi-Location Meeting Management Services

Our Event Management Team ensures that your audience receives the same consistent experience, anywhere in the world. You get one point of contact through the entire planning process, streamlined communication, real-time updates and the peace of mind knowing the details are taken care of.

Onsite Venue Services

Need support for your remote meeting locations to watch the webcast? You know we’ve got you covered! Our team provides Internet bandwidth site surveys, audio-visual services, and onsite technical and meeting management services to ensure a great experience for your audience.

Easily share your computer screen, documents and applications online in real-time so you can start working with remote colleagues and partners in seconds, wherever they are. With its intuitive interface, Anywhere is so simple to use that it will be adopted immediately.

Unified Meeting enhances the way you communicate by making meetings convenient and easy to manage. No matter how you choose to meet, when you choose to meet or from where – we’ve got you covered. Unified Meeting is a web based tool that puts you in complete control of all aspects of your meeting – including scheduling, managing and securing your meetings.

Whether you are collaborating online or simply using audio to meet, Unified Meeting improves your meeting experience with intuitive and powerful productivity enhancements that are available to you with a click of your mouse. All of this comes as a service that is integrated with the business tools that you use every day.

Make Your Meetings Click

With a click of your mouse or a tap on a mobile device, meetings are easier to manage, more effective and more productive.

Click to Share

iMeet ® is a revolutionary communication and collaboration product that can change the way you do business. iMeet was designed for you, the end-user. It features a sleek, user-friendly interface and layout that allows the user to connect quickly and easily. If you are on the road and need to hop on a quick meeting with co-workers in the office, iMeet allows you to connect instantly, while providing high quality, 1080p high definition video and the highest quality audio in the industry. iMeet can meet a wide variety of business needs.

Features:

Meeting capacity of up to 125 attendees

Voice and video options

Meeting capacity with HD video of up to 15 people

Passing control to a guest in the meeting to drive the presentation

Outlook integration, including a toolbar that pre-populates meeting details directly into calendar

Citrix GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToAssist and GoToTraining help businesses become more flexible than they ever imagined, increasing productivity and reach while eliminating unnecessary travel and costs. These collaboration tools make it easy to deliver sales presentations, collaborate with colleagues, demonstrate products and train customers and employees online from anywhere, at any time.

Citrix GoToMeeting is a user friendly, fast and secure solution for conducting and attending small-group online meetings with up to 25 attendees. Its innovative, All You Can Meet flat-fee subscription model enables individuals and businesses to use online meetings more often, resulting in increased productivity and a quicker ROI. With GoToMeeting, it’s easy to meet naturally online with integrated audio, HD video conferencing and screen sharing.

Citrix GoToTraining is an easy to use online training tool that allows you to deliver interactive online training sessions to anyone, anywhere, at any time. With GoToTraining, you will be able to deliver content to up to 200 trainees quickly and effortlessly, allowing you to expand your training program while saving time and reducing travel costs.

Citrix GoToWebinar makes communication with prospects, employees, partners and customers easier and more efficient than any webinar product available today. With GoToWebinar, you can give presentations, perform product demonstrations and deliver industry-wide messages to up to 1,000 attendees, anytime, anywhere — all for one flat fee.

Citrix GoToAssist Remote Support is an essential support tool designed for IT professionals, managed service providers and software consultants in a team environment. With GoToAssist Remote Support, you can resolve technical issues by instantly delivering web-based support to customers, end users, unattended computers and servers.

Key Benefits:

Desktop and application sharing: Broadcast a view of your PC or Mac desktop or share just a specific application.

HD Faces video conferencing: Share up to six webcams and drastically improve communication.

GoToMeeting Features:

Sales demos: Have face-to-face interactions with remote customers and prospects while you conduct live online demos.

Follow-up meetings: Answer questions, tie up loose ends and close deals without having to make an extra trip.

Collaboration: Stay connected with remote team members by including video in daily project meetings.

Make secure online connections

GoToMeeting is one of the industries most secure online meeting products. Industry standard SSL and U.S. government-standard 128-bit AES encryption ensure that your login information and meeting sessions are always secure. An optional password for meeting entry further enhances meeting security. You can rest assured that sensitive information will not be viewable to anyone except meeting participants.

Intuitive user interface: Easy-to-understand controls enable you to start and join meetings in seconds without training.

Cisco WebEx conferencing solutions can take you from an occasional one-on-one remote presentation to a marketing webinar to an online corporate event with 5,000+ participants. Whether you need a solution for personal use, your small business, or an enterprise product to support your multi-national business, Cisco WebEx will deliver for your next meeting or event.

Meet over the web in real time

Launch or join a meeting using any web browser. It’s easy with WebEx Web Conferencing solutions. Communicate information and share documents, presentations, and applications just like you do in person. Pitch ideas. Demonstrate products. Discuss the hot issues. Make online meetings even more engaging with high-quality video that automatically switches to the current speaker. Meet online just as if you were face to-face.

WebEx Meeting Center Features

Document, Application, and Desktop Sharing – Show documents, applications and your desktop to remote attendees in real time. Pass control to attendees so they can share their desktops or annotate yours. Collaborate on content as you annotate and enlarge documents or graphics. Switch between different sharing modes without transitions or distractions. No need to upload files to a server.

Enhanced Video Services – See video participants in high-quality Full-Screen video mode to watch the speaker without other visual distraction. The intuitive Active Speaker feature of WebEx Meeting Center can automatically switch the video to the current speaker.

Share powerful presentations, stream media modules or live video, and even pass control to attendees to demo applications. Give students the chance to practice and review using in-class breakout sessions or hands-on labs before, during, or after class. Measure proficiency with robust testing, grading, and polling tools. Then, leverage your investment by creating a digital archive of training sessions for self-paced study on demand.

DECREASE COSTS AND INCREASE REVENUE

Provide training for anyone, anywhere-without spending on venues and travel expenses. You’ll save a bundle. You can even transform your training program into a strategic revenue center by using Cisco WebEx Online Classroom self-service registration and payment features.

Capture your attendees’ attention by sharing documents, presentations, and applications in real time. Add the sizzle of Adobe Flash, 3D graphics, and streaming video. Record events for later playback. Engage your audience with polling and chat features as well as annotation tools.

MANAGE EVENTS EASILY, FROM START TO FINISH.

Take advantage of a full array of tools to handle pre- and post-event details. Send automated invites, confirmations, and reminders prior to your event. Register attendees with customized forms. Take control of event action behind the scenes with powerful admin tools.

Promotions at all your touch points – Make the most of every opportunity to connect with your prospects. Make promo materials, such as documents, PDFs, and video, available at registration and through pre- and post-event communications.

Registration management with attendance control – Save time and ensure a smooth registration experience. Automate registrant approval and customize the filters.

Mobile access – Invite by text messaging: Invite participants to join the audio portion of the meeting via text messaging (available on all services with the exception of Cisco WebEx Support Center). Join WebEx meetings from select smartphone browsers.

Q&A, chat, polling, attendance, and annotation tools – Engage in Q&A privately, or with all attendees. Chat with panelists or attendees during the event. Hold audience interest with polling, chat, and annotation. Track attendee interest using the attention indicator tool.

The implementation of the software by the Account Management team was very detailed and made the transition very smooth. The training and customer support that comes with the software allowed for us to quickly implement the program across many sales reps in short period of time. We have been using it for a few months now and there has no issues with any part of the package, from integration, to clarity on the calls, to customer service follow to make sure we don’t have question and finally to easy bill process.

Denis Kennedy, Total Scope, Inc.

The service we received from Select Communications was great on such short notice. Our users were able to complete their calls with ease. Thank you for the fast and easy service you provide.

Lori Waters, SkyWest Incorporated

Select Communications makes dial-in conferencing very easy and straight forward. From the beginning setup through to the first call, their system is great and so are their people.